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The Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation was created in December 1982 after the government decided to corporatise its railway department. Until 2007, the KCRC owned and operated a network of heavy rail, light rail and feeder bus routes within Kowloon and the New Territories.
- 24 December 1982; 40 years ago
- 431 million Hong Kong Dollars (2021)
Since 1982, it has become the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation, a statutory public corporation wholly owned by the Government. In 2007, the Corporation granted a service concession to the MTR Corporation Limited to operate its several railway lines.
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The Kowloon–Canton Railway (KCR; Chinese: 九廣鐵路; Cantonese Yale: Gáugwóng Titlouh) was a railway network in Hong Kong. It was owned and operated by the Kowloon–Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC) until 2007.
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- 33 railway stations, 68 light rail stations
A new Kowloon Tong Station and a redeveloped Mong Kok Station come into operation. December KCR ceases to be a government department and becomes a statutory public corporation, the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation. The front cover of the first Annual Report of KCRC of 1983.
Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC) is a statutory public corporation wholly owned by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, with senior Government officials being the Chairman and Members of its Managing Board.
Jun 1, 1999 · A single track railway opened in 1910 from the Lo Wu border crossing to Kowloon, the link with Canton (since re-designated Guangzhou) creating a title that was adopted by the public body constituted in 1982, the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation (KCRC).
The overriding reason for constructing the Kowloon-Canton railway was to ensure that the great trunk line south from Peking should have its southern terminus in Kowloon.
